What was the workshop like? Well there was really amazing carpet. I don’t know how relevant this is, but a lot of people…
This week I am moving all of my things out of S’s house and my other recent home, EH, into a storage unit. Then having achieved Bay Arean homelessness, I am going to Europe. First I’ll visit FHI and other nice things in Oxford. Then I’ll cruise around the Norwegian Fjords with S. Then I’ll meet up with my…
I did 23andMe. The most surprising things were that I am 10% ‘French and German’, and that I am genetically predisposed to be unusually slender. I thought I was English, Irish and Scandinavian, which is otherwise about right.
Sometimes I enjoy understanding better what it is like to be other people. You can do this somewhat subtly by talking to people for ages about other topics, and making inferences. Lately I’ve been asking more directly, something like, ‘what about your experience do you think…
Not the rarest way for hanging out to proceed:
Step 1: I like Bob.
Step 2: Bob wants to hang out. Inference: Bob likes me!
Step 3: Happiness
A friend paid me to go to a distant party with them, involving hours of transit. Feeling bad about the huge loss of value this probably constituted for someone or another, I tried to make the best of it by offering conversational advice and practice on the way there. Hopefully…
Every morning I do my morning routine. Some evenings I change what is in my morning routine. Recently I added ‘do something you have never done before’, which I had done before, but not in a while.
I made this blog to write about mundane things like geographic areas I have personally been located in. It was probably a bit tongue in cheek, because my own engagement with whatever geographic location I am in frequently fails to reach the level where I could tell you…
Now I’m in Oxford, England. Discussing the weather makes me self-conscious, but failing to do so might leave you with entirely the wrong picture. The skies are mostly perfectly blue, apparently starting at some point in the middle of the night. If I wake up at 6:45am, I can…
I spend time in different mental states, but it is surprisingly hard to say how they are different from one another. For instance, I just got back from a friend’s birthday dinner, which involved more wine consumption than my typical few hours of life, and I…
